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Gary Hilderbrand appointed new chair of landscape architecture at Harvard GSD

2022-03-23T14:37:00-04:00

One of the landscape design world’s leading names will be stepping into a new role this summer as Reed Hilderbrand founding principal and partner Gary Hilderbrand has been announced as the new chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard GSD.

Hilderbrand has been on the faculty at Harvard for over 30 years and will step into the role vacated by Anita Berrizbeitia after seven years at the helm of what is the oldest landscape architecture department in academia.

A statement from GSD Dean Sarah Whiting praised Hilderbrand’s “sensibilities as a teacher and as a practitioner,” stating that the two “are one and the same.”

“His unyielding efforts to reconcile imminent, often intractable forces of urbanization with ecological sustainability, cultural history, vegetative regimes, and thoughtful kindness are central to his pedagogy and practice both,” she continued. “I could not be more delighted he has accepted this appointment, and I am excited for what is to come under ...

Harvard Design Magazine 48 showcases a complete redesign and new editorial model

2021-03-27T11:21:00-04:00

Harvard Design Magazine 48: America seeks to reflect, breakdown, and redefine those established norms and conditions that define “America”. This is presented through the criticism of the physical manifestation of design, but also through the critique of the invisible hand of political and social policy that shapes the built landscape. With 2020 galvanizing many to question the established orders and attitudes that make up the United States, this issue seeks to continue that dialogue into their Spring Summer 2021 release.

In this reconsideration of existing frameworks, this release features a new look from the Danish graphic design firm Alexis Mark, and a new editorial direction under Julie Cirelli. For her first issue as editorial director, Cirelli seeks to open up a more decentralized editorial model in order to encourage further critical discourse and outreach to the larger community. This includes inviting guest editors Mark Lee and Florencia Rodriguez who seek to reveal and ques...

“Life Begins at the Apocalypse Monster Club” — a personal tribute to Rem Koolhaas' “Exodus” collage by scholar Enrique Ramirez

2017-09-14T17:45:00-04:00

The pitch-perfect paean to the only city we knew could have been taken straight from Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture: The Avowal (1972) by Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis [...] No wonder, then, that of all the images from this project, a photocollage of musicians posing in the “strip of intense metropolitan desirability” resonates with my memories of Houston and its eclectic punk scene.

Inspired by the confusing yet formative years of adolescence, Harvard Design Magazine's “Seventeen” issue explores “teens of all sorts—humans, buildings, objects, ideas—and their impact on the spatial imagination”.

In the poetic “Life Begins at the Apocalypse Monster Club” by architectural scholar and historian (and recording/touring bassist) Enrique Ramirez, he reflects on his punk-rock teenage years in the transforming “Space City” of Houston, and his personal connection to Rem Koolhaas' 1972 photocollage, “Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture: The Avowal”.

“This is a vision of youthful urbanism. This was us. This was our band. And like the titular dwellers of Exodus, we transformed the city, building a version of it that mirrored our own desires,” Ramirez writes.

Harvard Design Magazine's newest issue, "Run for Cover", probes the relationship between architecture and fear

2016-10-06T12:54:00-04:00

“Can we think our way out of fear? Design our way through dread?” ask the editors of “Run for Cover”, Harvard Design Magazine’s Summer/Spring issue. The 42nd edition of the journal questions the relationship between architecture and fear, troubling the normative expectation for architecture to act as shelter.

After all, architecture already is weaponized, serves as a mechanism for control, a target for attacks, a tool of segregation. This is increasingly true in the “age of terror”, when “we blind ourselves to the regimes of control enacted in the name of safety which ultimately encroach on our civil liberties.”

Run for Cover features writing by Geoff Manaugh, Jennifer Sigler, Interboro Partners, Blair Kamin, and Oliver Wainwright—among many others. You can read select articles online now, or purchase the whole thing for € 18.00.

Archinect has previously included the Harvard Design Magazine in our Screen/Print series, which is an experiment in translating written work on to the screen....